74% of Asians born in the U.S. said in a survey they have been treated as a foreigner, including being told to go back to their home country.
Read More“I’m proud our state could step in alongside the City of Seattle to help the Wing Luke Museum recover from the violence of hate,” said Gov. Jay Inslee. “The museum is a local treasure honoring Washington’s global diversity. I encourage folks to visit and learn more about the history and culture of Asian Americans, Native Hawaiians and Pacific Islanders.”
Read MoreThis is your neighborhood. The Wing Luke Museum is your museum. Mixed-race demographics lead us to 2046, when no majority racial group will exist. You may not be Asian or Pacific Islander, but chances are someone in your family, blood or chosen, is. Or will be. You belong. And so do your descendants.
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The Wing Luke’s Barraquiel Tan sees a path forward not just in stressing how much art contributes to the economy, but also to a “well society,” as he puts it. “Let’s not think of art as this little thing on the side,” he said. “Let’s think of it as the driver.”
Read MoreOver the past year, the Washington Trust for Historic Preservation has been working with the Wing Luke Museum of the Asian Pacific American Experience, located in the historic Seattle Chinatown-International District, on an interactive, digital version of their Japanese American Remembrance Trail (JART) tour.
Read MoreOver the past year, the Washington Trust for Historic Preservation has been working with the Wing Luke Museum of the Asian Pacific American Experience, located in the historic Seattle Chinatown-International District, on an interactive, digital version of their Japanese American Remembrance Trail (JART) tour.
Read MoreThe National Park Foundation (NPF) has again committed to making strategic investments in the park partner community including the Wing Luke Memorial Foundation.
Read MoreSeattle is home to many technology companies that have changed the way we live. It is also home to a vast Asian community. Correspondent Mike Kirsch explores the roots and contributions of Chinese and Asian Americans in one of the most prosperous and progressive cities in the United States.
Read More"Hai! Japantown," the annual block party in the historic neighborhood, is back again and going by its own beat.
Read MoreThis general operating grant will support the Wing Luke Museum of the Asian Pacific’s Creative Placemaking activities and its participation in Kresge’s Creative Practice cohort. The mission of the museum is to engage residents and the larger community with its history, art and cultures to advance racial and social equity within Seattle’s historic Chinatown and International District.
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Maybe it’s too darn hot to read… or maybe we can take literary inspiration from Seattle’s favorite martial arts star, Bruce Lee, whose 2,800-book library recently found a permanent home at the Wing Luke Museum in Seattle’s Chinatown-International District.
Read MoreAmerica’s Cultural Treasures is an initiative that honors the diversity of artistic expression and excellence in America and provides critical funding to organizations that have made a significant impact on its cultural landscape.
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In Seattle's historic Asian neighborhood, some say Sound Transit's $54 billion light rail expansion echoes harms of past infrastructure projects.
Read MoreJoël Barraquiel Tan is the new guy at Seattle's Wing Luke Museum. On this episode of the Chino Y Chicano podcast, Tan talks about his journey from the Philippines to the U.S., to California, Hawaii, and Seattle where in April he became the new executive director of the Wing Luke Museum.
Read More“The NEA has long supported exemplar arts organizations that work within AA and NHPI communities, such as the Wing Luke Museum…”
Read MoreEvery May, those in the United States honor the Asian American and Pacific Islander* (AAPI) individuals and communities who have enriched our nation’s history, contribute to its present flourishing, and work toward its future success. The month of May was chosen, and eventually formalized by President George H. W. Bush in 1992, to honor the month in which the first Japanese immigrant came to the United States in 1843, and the month in which the transcontinental railroad was completed, largely by Chinese immigrants, in 1869. At the Murdock Trust, AAPI Heritage Month gives us a chance to recognize the myriad and significant ways AAPI individuals and communities are working for the common good throughout the Pacific Northwest, through preserving history, providing culturally sensitive health care, offering beautiful cultural monuments, and so much more.
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